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the new way Google handles expired domains
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Well there is a "new" new way
I buy lots of expired domains. I own a lot of them, and all those that were acquired during the period where Google would drop all backlinks got hit with the penalty. Those domains got the grey bar (most of them did, some I got before Google knwe they expired). This penalty lasted about a month or so.
Now, all the backlinks on all those expired domains have been reinstated since last week. The penalty is either temporary, or they dropped the idea altogether for some unknown reason. It is also possible that Google is having some issues with the quality of their index, which could mean that those sites who got their PR back might have it by accident and might be disabled at a later time. I don't know.
Either way, even when the Google penalties were in effect, I managed to get a good 50% of all the domains I acquired before Google even knew they had expired. It's a numbers game, in the long run, expired domains have great value and can be used in many ways.